In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: Some people in the seventeenth century became pahi-kashta out of choice.

Reason: They became pahi kashta when the terms of revenue in a distant village were more favorable.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

In the seventeenth-century people became pahi-kashta either out of choice – for example, when terms of revenue in a distant village were more favorable – or out of compulsion – for example, forced by economic distress after a famine.